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TIL that the average American buys 53 new pieces of clothes each year.

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neA89 TIL that Norway is the country with the highest number of bronze, silver and gold medals in the history of the Winter Olympics with 368 medals.
1NXX TIL that Lord Byron’s nickname for William Wordsworth was William Turdsworth
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